Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollopewas one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Among his best-loved works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote perceptive novels on political, social, and gender issues, and on other topical matters...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 April 1815
mistake past years
Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.
horse dresses said
I don't like anybody or anything," said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.
book needs chiefs
Of all needs a book has, the chief need is to be readable.
meals left-alone novel
To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.
madness sanity remnants
She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.
reading blessing i-can
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
real rocks romance
I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.
men oxford literature
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
flirting reality ordinary
Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.
thinking people romance
People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.
opponents politician pleasure
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.
sex one-direction married
When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
everyday enemy speech
It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.
country book doctors
Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.